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Happy Dad Day Pink Cake
What better way to say thanks, dad than a lemon layer cake with a strawberry and cream center and lemony-sweet icing? That’s right, there is no better way! Adapted from this recipe, my cake was a soft, ultra-moist and delicate sponge of sweetness. Far too much sugar for my tastebuds, I was a bit dizzy [...]
Let Them (And Me, Mom and Dog) Eat Cake
I used to work a few blocks away from S’nice, Manhattan’s awesome veg sandwich shop, and have frequented it many times. Yet through all the work lunches and meet-ups, I have stayed monogamous to their Vegan Panini. It is just perfect: a warm, toasted, roof-of-the-mouth-scraping flatbread smeared with green pesto and stuffed with generous rectangles [...]
Thriftshopping… In My Closet, Part II
8. Buttons to Push Buttons. When I was a kid there was one phone in the in the house and it was in the kitchen. This phone had a ring so powerful you’d hear it from the basement, the attic and in any of the 4 top floor bedrooms. With four youngins in the household, [...]
My First Etsy Order/A Characteristic Over-disclosure
As my sidebar over there annouces, I have an Etsy shoppe now. Though I am mostly selling my photography, I do have some vegan treats listed (as well as photographs of vegan treats). I sold my first batch of cookies today… to my mom! Of course, I couln’t really charge her so I guess it [...]
Sad Songs Say So Much
My father used to blast sad songs from his basement office where he hunched over elaborate schooners and Fokker triplanes model kits. Many of these songs, later referred to as “dad songs” by my siblings, were holiday-themed and infused with regret and loneliness. Looking at the songs that I keep returning to in my own [...]
Vegan Mofo #21: Orange Pudding Cupcakes
There is a long coffee table in my folks’ house. The entire surface area of this table is covered with deep pools of Snickers miniatures, individually-wrapped Hostess cakes and Little Debbie treats. This is all year round. It is enough to secure dentists, doctors and food scientists within their lucrative fields for a lifetime. But this [...]
Cuteness & the Weird Aunt
My nieces are often scared of my home-stitched gifts. Looking nothing like Dora or the Princesses, my plush crafts are often confusing to them, even scary. (Last Christmas my stuffed owl gift was thrown in sheer panic and fear!) With this in mind I began to stitch them up some colorful masks from my huge [...]
Summer Color
The Wonder Wheel, Coney Island, BrooklynTangled up in blue, File under: Frankenstein’s strange sleeping habitsRed and blue and yellow, Sedona, ArizonaCuteness in a pile of balls, little K.Z. in Merrick, Long IslandFrittata Alla Fiorentina, Counter, East Village, N.Y.C. Brunch perfection.Olive, Teachers College bathroom, Morningside Heights, N.Y.C.Total Eclipse of the Heart, Color me drunk, Keats, Midtown, [...]
I Made This
For my niece, Ashley. Notice the Dreamglow Barbie trim and charm necklace strap from my personal childhood collection.
